From: MARK CALLAGHAN
Date: August 9 2012 11:39am
Subject: Re: test cases?
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If true this is also an issue for some users who don't modify MySQL
source. They still want to confirm that bugs are fixed in new
releases. Others want to confirm that binaries they compiled don't
have any obvious bugs.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the changes between mysql-5.5.25 and mysql-5.5.27,
> I noticed that while it contains quite a few bug fixes, they all come
> without test cases.
>
> What would that be - a change in policy? Careless developers?
>
> On the other hand, 5.5.27 contains a change to mysql-test-run to look
> for test cases in the new directory, named "internal".
>
> May be all new tests are there? That is, tests are no longer
> open-source?
>
> Whatever the reason is - everyone, who modifies MySQL (all linux
> distributions, facebook, twitter, taobao, and many others) have
> just lost the ability to test their extensions.
>
> Could anyone from Oracle shed some light on this?
> Where did the new test cases go?
>
> Regards,
> Sergei
>
>
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